Sunday, October 19, 2008

is there something wrong with being a muslim?

"But the really right answer is, what if he is?Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president?"

Obama arrived at the barbecue joint around 12:30 p.m., where an older and majority white clientele of several dozen were eating lunch after church services. Many patrons applauded as he walked into the diner, but Diane Fanning, 54, began yelling “Socialist, socialist, socialist — get out of here!”

Obama came to the long table where Fanning and other members of a local First Presbyterian church were gathered. He held out his hand to her and asked, “How are you, ma’am?” but she declined to shake his hand.In an interview, Fanning said, “I still think he’s a closet Muslim.”

with just over three weeks to go until the election, obama is in a diner in fayetteville, north carolina offering his hand to a woman who just called him a socialist, ordered him to "get out of here!" and thinks he's a "closet muslim."